Word: homers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other similar great moments captured by Angell in this book. Although Red Sox fans like myself cringe at the thought of reading about the 1986 World Series, Angell, a fellow Red Sox supporter, makes his "Not So, Boston" chapter bearable with a detailed recall of Dave Henderson's clutch homer in the American League Championship Series against the Angels and "Rocket" Roger Clemens' glorious summer...
...first third of Wim Wenders' long, gorgeous, swoony, dead-serious fairy tale, the voices of today's Berlin rise like the choral symphony of a great city. Then, gradually, a few solo stories can be heard. An old man named Homer (Curt Bois) recalls the days, once upon a time, when a poet had listeners, drawn into a circle; now he has only solitary readers, unable to warm themselves at the long-ago communal campfire of art. A visiting Hollywood actor (Peter Falk) teaches a new friend some primal joys, simple things: "To smoke, have coffee...
...fourth to take the lead, but the Crimson blew open the game with four runs in the top of the fifth. Morelli led off with a walk, moved to second on Caprio's single and scored on a passed ball. After Allen walked, Renninger's three-run homer gave Harvard the lead it needed...
Currier had an outstanding day. He went six for seven, which included four singles, a double and a homer...
...make a sharp right turn that would find the strike zone. But when the whiffle ball hung (maybe because the pitcher did not pay attention to the diagrams on the side of the official whiffle ball boxes), it usually flew across the street for a "forget that one"-type homer...